"A pill sweetened with honey, [Two recipes for pills are found in the papyri, one with honey for women, and one without for men.] such as they give to women," he muttered to himself.

Then he went back to the table, read the king's letter through once more, and said: "One may learn from it how to deny by granting, and at the same time not to forget to give it a brilliant show of magnanimity.

Rameses knows his daughter.
She is a girl like any other, and will take good care not to choose a man twice as old as herself, and who might be her father.

Rameses will 'submit'-- I am to I submit!' And to what?
to the judgment and the choice of a wilful child!" With these words he threw the letter so vehemently on to the table, that it slipped off on to the floor.
The mute slave picked it up, and laid it carefully on the table again, while his master threw a ball into a silver bason.
Several attendants rushed into the room, and Ani ordered them to bring to him the captive dwarf of the Lady Katuti.

His soul rose in indignation against the king, who in his remote camp-tent could fancy he had made him happy by a proof of his highest favor.